The US is portrayed as targeting Cuba with renewed pressure and escalating claims. Marco Rubio signals limited prospects for a negotiated settlement while emphasizing hostility toward Cuba’s communist government. Raul Castro faces US charges tied to alleged plots to kill US nationals and to the downing of aircraft in 1996. The evidence is described as resembling justifications used against Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro. The Trump administration is said to leak intelligence claiming Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones aimed at the Guantanamo Bay base. The claim is presented as implausible because a weakened Cuba would not attack a nearby superpower and invite overwhelming retaliation. US intentions are framed as openly aggressive, with references to colonial conquest and military buildup in the Caribbean.
"While professing a preference for a negotiated settlement, he said the chances of a deal were not high. A couple of months ago, I saw up close the economic devastation already inflicted by decades of US siege and, since January, by a crippling oil blockade introduced by Donald Trump. The US has now charged the country's former president Raul Castro with conspiracy to kill US nationals, four counts of murder and two counts of destruction of aircraft over the downing of two planes in 1996."
"The evidence points increasingly in one direction: it is all grimly reminiscent of the indictment of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro, used to justify his kidnapping by US forces. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is leaking intelligence claiming that Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones, supposedly to attack the US base at Guantanamo Bay. It's a growing threat, claimed one anonymous senior US official."
"The idea that, after several decades of tense relations with the US, a drastically weakened Cuba would suddenly launch an attack on the superpower only 90 miles from its shores, inviting overwhelming retribution, is plainly a fantasy. It is a desperate, threadbare homage to the weapons of mass destruction pretext used to invade Iraq. Trump is hardly keeping his intentions secret. I do believe I'll be having the honour of taking Cuba, he declared in March, reminiscent of the 19th-century European colonialists who carved up Africa."
"Days ago, the USS Nimitz the US Navy's oldest aircraft carrier arrived in the Caribbean, supposedly for a maritime exercise. With the US humiliated by Iran, as Germany's chancellor, Friedrich Merz, put it, you might think Trump's appetite for conflict would be diminished."
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]